The mission of the
International Student Competition on Cold-Formed Steel Design (CFS Design
Competition) is to promote higher education in cold-formed steel structural
design and to encourage students to use creative thinking skills to solve
engineering problems.

After the successful
2014,
2013,
2012 and
2011 competitions, the 2014 Competition is
hosted again at the University of North Teas. We encourage
the participation of any students at any level in any major as long as you
are creative, interested in designing things, and eager to learn new
technologies.

The
design package (2 documents) shall be zipped to one single .zip or .rar
file, and then emailed to the above address. The name of the single file
shall be in the format: first name_last name.zip or first name_last
name.rar.

Requirement for Design Essay

A brief
essay (in English), limited to maximum 6 letter-size pages, is required
as part of the design package. The essay shall describe the concept of
the design, the methodology used for optimization, and the finite
element modeling and analysis results, and the calculation of the
nominal strength.

Evaluation
Criteria:

The winning designs should have a combination of high nominal shear
strength per unit weight and high fabrication feasibility. The final
ranking of each design will be based on the sum of 80% of its rank in
unit strength and 20% of its rank in fabrication feasibility.
The rank for fabrication feasibility will be decided by the judges.